Racism And Segregation In The 1930's

People change and ways change every day. Imagine what could happen over a series of years. Let's think back to America in the 1930's. The white race would treat the negro race very poorly, there was lynching, false accusations of blacks, and public segregation. Many books about this time were written to show how racist the whites were to the blacks. Racism and segregation in the 1930's was crueler than in the book "To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. Blacks and whites were kept separate in all public places at this time. Back then "in order to maintain dominance whites wanted signs that specified 'whites' and 'blacks' only" (Chafe 55). This was for the safety of both the blacks and whites. Although blacks were criticized for it, it still kept them in a safe environment from whites. Things were so segregated in the 1930’s, the ”Jim Crow Laws required whites and Negros to use separate public facilities" ("Segregation" 228a). Yet, This law made public more racial physically and verbally. These restrictions on negros probably made them feel like they were at war with the white people. The segregation between blacks and whites were so bad that they had to put up signs that identified if negros could or couldn't go or do something. Whites were
They kept the black people under their control by “by lynching, whites were desperately wanting to keep blacks in a fixed position socially" (Chafe 57). Whites were bullying the blacks and there was no one that could prevent it. It's a harsh and inhumane that the whites would do these things to the innocent African Americans. To keep comfort and security "African Americans resisted and stayed away from whites at any cost" (Chafe 28). I would stay away from whites to if I was a Negro, I would not like to be in the way of them. The whites abused their power over the African Americans. Whites were in control of the social rank of the African